Thursday, 10 May 2007

Here’s a list of 12 indispensable books on the doctrine of creation. It’s not really a balanced list – e.g. there’s nothing here on the New Testament, and I’ve restricted the list to modern works. But in any case, these are some of the books that I’ve found most impressive and most useful. Here they are, in chronological order:

Hermann Gunkel, Creation and Chaos in the Primeval Era and the Eschaton (1895; translated 2006)

Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics III/1 (1958)

Jon Levenson, Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence (1988)